Atlantic Edge

The first leg of the journey begins at Falmouth and carries on to the Scilly Isles, travelling around the South West corner of England.

On the second stage of their journey our intrepid travellers visit the Pembrokeshire coast of South Wales. A dramatic rescue of the runabout left members of the team with their hearts in their mouths.

Leg three of the journey takes us across to the South West coast of Ireland. Adam is interested to see how the isolated communities who inspired a wave of early 20th century writers and poets are surviving.

The Auk is in the South West region of Ireland, and Adam is in search of spirituality. The Irish are famed for the strength of their faith, but what Adam wants to find out why it was here in the far south corner of Ireland that Christianity first flourished.

Adam and the Auk visit the Shiants, an island group of 550 acres in the Outer Hebridies, that Adam owns. Adam intends to conduct an experiment. He means to eat only what he can obtain from the land and the sea.

Adam, George and the Auk are in the North West of Scotland to find out what has happened to the Hebridian Outliers. Their first stop is St Kilda the most westerly inhabited place in Britain. Then it is on to the most northerly part of the Hebrides, North Rona, stopping in at Stornaway on the way. North Rona is the breeding grounds of grey seals.

Unlike the West Coast islands, this is a soft and fertile place where agriculture has been a part of the life of islanders for the last 6000 years. Adam is off to the Knap of Howar to visit the oldest prehistorical remains in the Orkneys. He visits an island which was purchased by 25 monks and finds himself questioning his spirituality.

The final leg of the journey is to the Faroes, a two hundred mile leap out into the autumn winds of the North Atlantic.